Thursday, 12 Apr 2012
Open House: National Student Employment Week
For ISU students who work on or off campus. Enjoy breakfast on the go and register for door prizes.
Chemical & Biological Engineering Department
Graduate Seminar Series Speaker James Katzer, Affiliate Professor, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Iowa State University
Green Bag Lecture
Bring a "no-trash" lunch with you to this sustainable version of our Brown Bag Lectures. Enjoy an education program. Attend each month and experience a new topic presented by local and regional professionals and lecturers.
STEM Education Brown Bag Seminar
"Elementary Science Teaching: A Changing Landscape with Challenges & Opportunities," Joanne Olson, ISU science education. Faculty, staff and students are welcome. Please RSVP to srenfro@iastate.edu.
Informality: Spontaneous Process in Dwelling - The Lima Case
Precarious, spontaneous housing on the peripheries of Lima, Peru, demonstrates how the search for beauty occupies a fundamental place in residents' priorities, emerging even before the most basic comforts have been addressed. Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano will describe the informal process through which people build their own cities-one house at a time-to meet their needs, and how they strive to make their dwellings beautiful.
Beyond Basics: Belly Dance Choreography Workshop
Come join the fun and learn a fabulous dance routine created exclusively for this workshop! Shiara's dance style has been described as "dramatic and precise, punctuated with playfulness and intensity," and you can rest assured that these qualities will be reflected in the choreography that she'll be teaching!
Cyclone Cinema: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Debate: Is the Bible the Source of Absolute Moral Rules for Today?
Hector Avalos is a professor of religious studies at Iowa State. Keith Darrell is founder and an evangelist with the Whitefield Fellowship.
Is Religion Compatible with Science?
Dr. Sabeel Ahmed is the Director of the GainPeace Project, an outreach project of Islamic Circle of North America. GainPeace.com conducts outreach projects in Chicago and other cities across the United States to educate people about misconceptions regarding the teachings of Islam.
Lecture: Influential Landscapes
Studio artist Katy Stone, an Iowa native and Iowa State alum, has a unique visual voice that is heavily influenced by a connection to landscape. She paints on a nontraditional artistic material, archival plastic film, as well as on paper and metal. The accumulated mass of gestures are then cut, combined and layered into three-dimensional assemblages. She will speak about how the natural environment influences her artwork.
Freedom Sings: A Musical Celebration of the First Amendment
Freedom Sings invites audiences to experience the First Amendment in a new way. The multimedia presentation is part concert and part conversation and features music that has been banned, censored or sounded a call for social change. A program of the First Amendment Center, Freedom Sings features live music, video and narration, and showcases hit songwriters, engaging performers and Grammy Award winners. First Amendment Day Celebration
Songwriters in the Round - Freedom Sings Post-Show Performance
Join the Freedom Sings Band members for a post-show performance. Live from Nashville, these singers, songwriters and musicians will share original material and play some of their greatest hits. Part of the 10th-Anniversary First Amendment Day Celebration.
SUB Music: Freedom Sings
FREE for all students and the public!